problem in mounting HD & boot to win xp
 

I'm having a big trouble....

I'm using mandrake 8.1

I can't mount my /dev/hda1 (which contain my win xp)
when i want to mount it says :
"wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1 or too many mounted file system"
can anybody PLEASE HELP me.......

and I still can't boot to win xp through LILO ...
there is always printed "01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01......" on the screen when I want to boot to win xp

is this caused by the unmounted of hda1 or there is another thing caused this... ????

THANX VERY MUCH for the HELP .....

=)

How is your win xp partition formatted? Is it fat32 or ntfs? If it's ntfs, that's going to be a problem.

i formatted my win xp as FAT32

and i can't mount my win xp partition (which is /dev/hda1)

but i can mount the other partition which doesn't have any OS (/dev/hda6)

can u help me???

As root in a terminal window or a console screen, run this command
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows. But first make sure the directory /mnt/windows exists. Do a ls /mnt and see if the windows directory is there. If it isn't, run mkdir /mnt/windows. Then run the command and see if it will mount it.

i've check it and the directory /mnt/windows was exist
but still i can't mount my /dev/hda1

what is going on ??

i still can't boot to my win xp, while i need to boot to win xp .....

Have you got support for Fat32 in your kernel? AFAIK it is NOT compiled into the kernel in a standard build. Have you tried recompiling your kernel?

i don't know anything about the kernel
but from mandrake i can read my /dev/hda6 which is formatted as FAT32.

maybe there's an error in my /dev/hda1 cause fdisk can't recognize what kind of partition that i use for /dev/hda1 just like they don't recognize the ext3 file system while the fdisk can detect my /dev/hda6

so i format my drive c and install a new win xp

now i want to boot mandrake 8.1 from floppy(i have made it).
can i do that ??
i mean without the installation of LILO into the MBR. (so everytime i want to boot to mandrake i use the boot disk and when i want to boot to win xp i just run the computer normally)
is it possible to do that ??
what is the command ??

i've tried also to use boot magic 7.0 but the screen freeze after i choose to boot to win xp. it says "preparing the machine to boot....." and it freeze.
what is the problem with that ??

wow i asked so many question cause it's my first time to use linux and double boot.

i hope u will help me

thanx

.............
finally i made it to boot to mandrake and win xp
i made boot disk to mandrake and install my LILO there

Thanx alot for all of your help.......
:D